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IPA Video Podcasts

An illuminating experience

The IPA Enlightenment Masterclass and Rising Star Series

The IPA Enlightenment Masterclass Series - Death Pathways in Photodynamic Therapy (PDT) - March 3, 2025

Topics:

  • Death Pathways in PDT - David Kessel, PhD

 
 

The IPA Enlightenment Masterclass Series - PDT: Missed Opportunities & How to Overcome Them - February 28, 2023

Topics:

  • PDT Missed Opportunities & How to Overcome Them Part 1 - Stephen Bown, PhD

  • PDT Missed Opportunities & How to Overcome Them Part 2 - Colin Hopper, MD

The IPA Enlightenment Masterclass Series - Molecular Targeted Photodynamic Therapy - February 12, 2024

Topics:

  • A Brief History of Photoimmunotherapy and Progress Towards Image Guidance and Multiplexing - Bryan Spring, PhD

  • Nanobody-Targeted Photodynamic Therapy for Oncology - Sabrina Oliveira, PhD

The IPA Enlightenment Masterclass Series - Light Dosimetry in PDT: What do we need to know? - September 10, 2024

Topics:

  • Introduction: Colin Hopper, MD

  • Light Dosimetry in PDT: From Bench to Clinic: Gal Shafirstein, PhD

  • Dosimetry Considerations for daily light PDT: Timothy Zhu, PhD

 

Light responsive platforms for controlled drug delivery - November 8, 2021

Topics:

  • Light-Triggered Drug Release from Cell Conveyed Phototherapeutics - David S. Lawrence, PhD

  • PCI and Light-Controlled Delivery of Cancer Immunotherapeutics - Pål Kristian Selbo, PhD

  • PCI of Gemcitabine in Locally Advanced Inoperable Cholangiocarcinoma - A new technique with promising clinical activity - Jorg Trojan, PhD

PpIX: Successes and Opportunities - March 8, 2022


Topics:

  • PDT In Oral Cancer - Tayyaba Hasan, PhD

  • PDT In Skin Cancer - Edward Maytin, MD, PhD

  • Fluorescence Cancer Imaging Using 5-ALA induced PpIXF - Christian Betz, MD, PhD

  • ALA - Fluorescence: Diagnostic and Therapeutic Applications in the Brain - Nicolas Reyns, MD, PhD

Metal Complexes as Photosensitizers for Photodynamic Therapy - November 15, 2022

Topic:

  • Metal Complexes as Photosensitizers for Photodynamic Therapy - Gilles Gasser, PhD, FRSC

 

Shedding light on nanoparticle science! - March 12, 2021


Topics:

  • Raman nanotheranostics - How can inelastic scattering add value? - Nicholas Stone, PhD

  • Control of resistant pneumonia using extracorporeal illumination - Vanderlei Bagnato, PhD

  • Photodynamic liposomes for chemotherapy - Jonathan Lovell, PhD

Opportunities for Photodynamic Disinfection/ Antimicrobial PDT - May 17, 2021

Topics:

  • Introduction to Antimicrobial PDT - Keith Cengel, MD, PhD

  • PDT in Dentistry; Early Clinical Experience - Amparo Faustino, PhD

  • PDT in Infections - Francesco d’Aiuto, DMD, PhD

  • From MRSA to COVID: Present and future clinical applications in an otolaryngology surgical practice - Jack Kolenda, MD

  • Clinical Studies in Antimicrobial PDT - Nicolas Loebel, PhD

History, current practice and future direction of head and neck PDT - September 13, 2021

Topics:

  • Head and Neck PDT - Colin Hopper, BDS, MBBS, MD

Part of the IPA Enlightenment Masterclass Series. This series is brought to you by the International Photodynamic Association (IPA).